Afghan refugee who fled Taliban wins $100,000 Canadian scholarship
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An Afghan girl who fled the Taliban in 2021 won a scholarship worth $100,000, which will help her to study at a Canadian university.
An Afghan girl who fled the Taliban in 2021 won a scholarship worth $100,000, which will help her to study at a Canadian university.
Umulbanin Arjmand was awarded a Loran scholarship, given out based on "character, service and leadership potential," according to the University of Saskatchewan’s website.
Two years ago, Arjmand was on her way back home after attending a midterm exam at Marefat High School in Kabul when she realized that the situation in the city was not the same as it was the day before.
Unlike the previous day, the normally bustling Dasht-e-Barchi – in the west of Kabul city where Arjmand was living and attending school – was silent. There were few people on the streets.
“It was like calm before the storm,” Arjamand told CTVNews.ca.
No one had told Arjmand, but the Taliban were almost in the city. That day would be her last at her school.
“I had two exams left at school when I was asked not to go to school anymore because I was a girl,” Arjmand said, referencing a Taliban-imposed ban on education for women and girls.
